and analysis, i am joined by our roundtable, cnbc's dynamic duo this morning, maria bartiromo and jim cramer. congressman chris van hollen. and grover norquist. has anything been said about you this week? i don't know. i can't remember. grover, i want to start with you as we get first reaction to secretary geithner. the line in the sand is clear, and that is that the administration, the president, says that republicans will indeed blink, that they will ultimately have to acquiesce, tax rates have to go up. >> well, your interview with him was very, very helpful to me because in the past, there have been some republicans who thought that maybe the administration, like clinton, was going to be reasonable, that they might put real reforms like welfare reform like clinton did on the table. what we just heard was no reforms. he even took the $1 trillion in spending cuts they agreed to, to the debt ceiling, took that off. so we'll spend $1 trillion more there. 24 this is a massive collection of spending increases and tax increases. every republican who had impure thoughts of maybe i could raise ta
